Redlands Police arrested a 40-year-old Highland man for having sex with a minor after he was found with a 14-year-old girl in the backseat of a parked car early Thursday morning, March 17
Shortly after 4 a.m., while on proactive patrol, Redlands Police officers contacted Jonathan Jeremy Ledesma with the victim inside his vehicle during an occupied vehicle check near Fairway Drive and Country Club Drive.
Ledesma told Officers that the teen was his girlfriend. Officers located evidence of sex acts inside of the vehicle. During a consent search of Ledesma's phone officers located text messages that were sexual in nature between the victim and Ledesma planning to meet up for sex.
Detectives interviewed the victim who disclosed that since she turned 14 she has had sex with Ledesma multiple times. All of these sex acts occurred on different dates over the last two months in the back seat of the suspect’s car while parked in the city of Redlands.
A search warrant was authorized by a San Bernardino County judge and served by RPD officers on the suspect’s vehicle, suspect’s phone, victim’s phone, suspect’s person and the victim’s person. Numerous pieces of evidence were located that collaborated the victim’s statement.
The suspect met the victim while he was a coaching her at the age of 9 through the Redlands AYSO organization. He had access to other children through his status as a coach and it is believed there could be other victims.
Ledesma is being held without bail at Central Detention Center in San Bernardino on various charges of sexual assault on a minor.
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